#tidmine

"Mizpah," he said. She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?" "A sort or goodbye without saying goodbye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”

“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“we are all the pieces of what we remember. we hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. as long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“one last word, one last moment to ask you why you left me here behind ”

“you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. but you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.